Less quarantine and more testing. Change the strategy in the school, to minimize distance learning.
The news is contained in the draft with the "Indications for the identification and management of contacts of Covid-19 cases in the school environment" drawn up by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the ministries of health and education.
In primary and secondary schools, in the presence of a positive case among the pupils, the classmates will be "under surveillance with testing" and in the event of a negative result they will be able to return to the classroom.
If, on the other hand, a second pupil is positive, those who have been vaccinated or negativized in the last six months will be able to return to the classroom and will be "in surveillance with testing", but for those who have not been vaccinated, quarantine will be triggered.
In the presence of two positive cases between the contacts of the first infected, so if three students test positive, only at that point will the quarantine for the whole class be triggered. The same rules will always apply to primary and secondary schools even in the presence of a positive case among teachers or school operators.
Therefore for the pupils of the classes in which the teacher has carried out activities in the presence, there will be surveillance "with testing" and the return to school after the negative test result. In the presence of a further positive case, in addition to the teacher, the quarantine is triggered only for not vaccinated or negativized in the last 6 months. In the presence of two positive cases, in addition to the teacher, there will be quarantine for the whole class.
Different procedures in the educational services for children, therefore in the case of children from zero to six years. In the presence of a positive case, a ten-day quarantine is triggered for all, while for educators and operators the quarantine may vary from 7 to 10 days based on the indications of the Ministry of Health.
(Unioneonline / L)
